Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Opportunity Quotes
It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The beauty of America is its mission that every person be allowed the opportunity to attain success, to work their way up and down the economic ladder based on their own effort. When we neglect that ladder, decay begins to rot away at its rungs.
I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
